{"id":1161604,"date":"2022-07-29T12:03:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T12:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/29\/barcelona-reach-agreement-with-sevilla-for-jules-kounde\/"},"modified":"2022-07-29T12:03:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T12:03:24","slug":"barcelona-reach-agreement-with-sevilla-for-jules-kounde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/29\/barcelona-reach-agreement-with-sevilla-for-jules-kounde\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona reach agreement with Sevilla for Jules Kounde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"680\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image_2022-07-29_065827877.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Jules Kounde\/ Image source: @fcbarcelona\/ Twitter\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jules Kounde\/ Image source: @fcbarcelona\/ Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Barcelona have agreed to sign France centre-back Jules Kounde from Sevilla for a\u00a0reported transfer fee of 50m euros\u00a0(\u00a341.85m).<\/p>\n<p>However, Barca say the deal is subject to the 23-year-old passing a medical.<\/p>\n<p>Kounde, who has won 11 France caps since his debut in 2021, had recently been linked with a move to Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>The defender has made 133 appearances for Sevilla, and won the Europa League in his first season there after joining from Bordeaux in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>He also started in\u00a0France\u2019s 2-1 victory against Spain\u00a0in last year\u2019s Nations League final.<\/p>\n<p>Kounde\u2019s imminent arrival at the Nou Camp follows Barcelona\u2019s signing of\u00a0Poland striker Robert Lewandowski\u00a0from Bayern Munich for \u00a342.6m, and\u00a0Brazil winger Raphinha\u2019s arrival\u00a0from Leeds in a \u00a355m move.<\/p>\n<p>Ivory Coast midfielder Franck Kessie and Denmark defender Andreas Christensen have also joined manager Xavi\u2019s side on free transfers from AC Milan and Chelsea respectively, while France winger Ousmane Dembele has signed a contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"qrCEykairHc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam On Adom TV (29-7-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qrCEykairHc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jules Kounde\/ Image source: @fcbarcelona\/ Twitter Barcelona have agreed to sign France centre-back Jules Kounde from Sevilla for a\u00a0reported transfer fee of 50m euros\u00a0(\u00a341.85m). However, Barca say the deal is subject to the 23-year-old passing a medical. Kounde, who has won 11 France caps since his debut in 2021, had recently been linked with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1161606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3449,656,21069,14074,3068,3298],"class_list":["post-1161604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-agreement","tag-barcelona","tag-jules","tag-kounde","tag-reach","tag-sevilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}